A little Rant about the "Most Selfish Generation" (Vanity)

FreeRepublic ^ | 09/02/2003 | ME

[Motherhood IS a career]

This is the best written rant I've read in a long time. Sums things up pretty accurately, and you all know it.

Clearly, it does not apply to every individual member of that generation, and those who know it doesn't apply to them aren't getting hostile or defensive about it.

Unlike the ones with the classy "bite me" response. That's exactly the attitude the writer has described, and you've just confirmed yourself as someone who has something to be ashamed of. By the way, do you speak to your children that way? No wonder they don't respect you.

[Motherhood IS a career]

Oh, you're not? You mean I might be over-generalizing? Hmm...

You know, when someone over-generalizes, and I don't fit the description, I don't get my britches all tied in a knot over it. Hmm....??

[johnb838]

Granny needs FREE PILLS!!! No money for you.

Well, for pete's sake. Why don't you just put her out on the porch overnight this winter.

[HoundsTooth_BP]

[Trust me , I could go on and on. The only reason that some (Gen Xer's are choosing to stay at home, is simply because there aren't any opportunities in the job market. If I had a home to go to, (I can't because my parents are divorced) I would in order to save cash and pay off debt. In conclusion, I think Gen Xer's are a lot more conservative than the baby boomers give us credit for.]

Times are different and those who need to stay with their family should not be made fun of. In fact that is more honorable than the "shacking up" that so many others do.

Parents should be thankful they can help and they may need the favor in their old age instead of a nursing home.

[snopercod]

And you too...

[johnb838]

The reason SS and Medicare may not be around when you are there is that the current retirees, not Baby Boomers, keep pushing for more benefits.

Mainly because the grey panther generation votes in greater numbers than any other demographic. The pols HAVE to listen to them. If anybody doesn't like it, let them work increase voting in their age group, or else join the communists.

[KantianBurke]

How about she:

a) Make sure to sets aside enough of her own money for her needs instead of having big daddy govt steal it from others who are trying to raise a family of their own.
b) Have a child/spouse/friend help with the bill instead of looting it from those trying to save enough for their first mortgage.
c) Seek aid from any number of charity organizations that are in her community instead of increasing our already oppressive tax rates.

"Gimme gimme gimme! I'm OLD!"

[Billthedrill]

Personally, when I see someone insulting an entire generation I feel it worthy of a riposte, or at least a discussion. It's sort of what FR is for. Are you here to exchange recipes?

[johnb838]

severe unemployment

6.5% unemployment is not severe.

more broken households than we can shake a stick at

Most of us came from broken households too.

pathetic disgrace of a public school system

Thank the liberals for that, not the boomers

[brianl703]

d)Stop falling for every drug advertisement on TV.

e)Start taking care of herself so she wouldn't be in such poor health.

[johnb838]

"We saw the cost of payroll taxes often exceed income taxes to pay for the social security checks that many seniors use for international travel and dining out, exclusively."

PAYROLL TAXES EXCEED INCOME TAXES ALL THE TIME BECAUSE THE BOTTOM 50% ONLY PAY 5% OF THE TAXES!!!!!

[tcostell]

Actually, I didn't mean to insult the entire generation just the portion of it that wants to use the government to order others to pay their bills...again.

But I posted here to open the topic to discussion so you were right about that part.

I'm just sorry so many people took it personally when I thought I made it pretty clear that I was only trying to address a general trend.

[johnb838]

And furthermore our retirement age has already been moved to 68 to get full benefits. Hope the company I work for then lets me stay on those last three years.

[tcostell]

Actually I think it's both who are to blame. Liberals invented the justification but boomers are the ones who beleived it.

[brianl703]

Do we fix it by raising taxes or cutting the spending?

[tcostell]

I've really got to remember to use spell-check.

My Apologies.

[Sloth]

I hope someday they'll dwindle to a minority, and we will be able to strangle them.

BTW, don't put all the blame on the Baby Boomers -- let's face it, the WWII generation may have struggled through the depression & fought the war, but they did a seriously crappy job of raising kids.

[Unknowing]

I agree with what you have written. The Baby Boomers are entirely too much, in so many ways. Of course they don't like to hear it. Of course they will lock us out and make us pay for their party.

Of course they will say that no matter how many advabced degrees we obtain, we are somehow less educated than they were.

The Baby Boomers are in a fight to the death to preserve their selfish ways, while we are only starting to become critical of their conduct. And we have been harmed, doubtlessly, by their hypocrisy and good intentions, as well as by their selfish and egoistical domineering.

No matter what we do, we will still be denigrated by the fatuous Baby Boomers.

[Redleg Duke]

While I am in the yeargroup of the "Me" generation, somehow, I didn't get the memo.

I served in the Great Sexual Revolution as a non-combatant...a Conscientious Objecter, if you will.

While I didn't go overseas, I served 32+ years in the National Guard and Reserves, under hostile fire once, over the University of Wisconsin campus in May of 1970...by my own generation.

Somehow, I never lost sight of what values we were bequeathed by "The Greatest Generation", nor failed to value them.

We were not all pond scum and selfish human debris. But those that were got all the publicity.

Many of us "soldiered on" in anonymity.

Many of us kept the faith.

Many of us remember "The Greatest Generation" when they were younger and have watched them grow older and slip away. Now, we worry that what was passed to us may not be passed to the generation spawned by the "Me Generation".

If that happens, then a National Tragedy will have taken place.

[laotzu]

You were of voting age when Clinton was elected.

You are as much to blame as everyone else, who didn't vote for Clinton, for his taking the White House; regardless of age. Why do you blame boomers, but exempt yourself?

There are a small percentage of cellists/Coke drinkers/freckled/omnivours/allergy sufferers/truck drivers that hail Clinton, and desire to extort your money.

There are idiots in every group.

Yet, you did not link/identify these idiots with truck drivers, or sneezers. You chose boomers. Why? Why boomers, and no one else?